Mussel 1

‘mussel’,

easy way to type it:

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

IPA

[ džan ],

then

[ čʼan ],

then

[ džan ],

then

[ čʼan ]

[ dʒan ],

then

[ tʃʼan ],

then

[ dʒan ],

then

[ tʃʼan ]

Instant Phonetic Englishization: Lolly’s heavy pronunciations of the initial
consonant of the word make the word just like the English name ‘John’. Her ejective pronunciations are a light one,
then a medium one.

This word does not occur in the Milluk
texts or in Jacobs slip-file dictionary, nor apparently anywhere else in Jacobs
work with Mrs. Peterson.